For those who can't remember it, in the lead up to Cramer's
appearance, Stewart had been
railing against Wall Street commentators, specifically CNBC
hosts from Cramer to Mario Bartiromo -- he went to town on a clip
of Cramer saying Bear Stearns was in good shape, just before it
imploded.

Still, Cramer says that the Daily Show promised they wouldn't use
any crazy clips of him when he came to the show, and he thought
it would be a friendly chat. "They lied," he says.

After the interview, people like that, total strangers, would
come up to me and say, ‘Jim, I’m sorry.’ That made me feel
horrible, people feeling sorry for me. For six months it was on
my mind all the time. I hurt so bad.

He says he doesn't think about it anymore.

But he must, just a bit, because he replays the moment in his
head, and broods on how he could or should have responded.

Maybe I should have taken the gloves off. When Stewart talked
about how his 75-year-old mother lost money in the market, I
could have said: ‘Hey, your brother Larry Leibowitz is one of the
heads of the New York Stock Exchange. Why didn’t he give your mom
advice? Maybe I should have said that.